Qinhuangdao

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin Qínhuángdǎo romanization of the Mandarin 秦皇島 / 秦皇岛 (Qínhuángdǎo).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chǐnʹhwängʹdouʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Qing‧huang‧dao

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Qinhuangdao

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
    • 1984 December 26 [1984 September 20], Chen Lei, “Further Emancipate the Mind and Penetratingly Carry Out Reform and Open-Door Policy”, in China Report: Economic Affairs‎[2], number 84-107, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 18:
      In addition, on the basis of making full use of Dalian and Qinhuangdao ports for exports, we should fully use Qingjin and Luojin ports in the DPRK to expand our province's export commodity capacity.
    • 2014 November 20, Austin Ramzy, “Man Stabs 7 Hospital Workers to Death in China, Police Say”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2014, Asia Pacific‎[4]:
      The suspect, a 27-year-old hospital employee who had no known motive, was arrested after the attacks, the Qinhuangdao City Public Security Bureau said in a statement online. The stabbings took place Thursday morning in Beidaihe, a resort area in the Hebei Province city of Qinhuangdao, about 180 miles east of Beijing.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chinwangtao or Ch’in-huang-tao”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 399, column 2

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